Answers: The Kennedy Family

By U.S. News Staff

May 15, 2009 RSS Feed Print

1. How many children did Joseph and Rose Kennedy have?

C. 9 (Joseph Jr., John, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert, Jean, Edward)

2. Which of the following honors did former President John F. Kennedy not receive?

D. Nobel Prize

3. What is the name of the estate in McLean, Va., where Robert and Ethel Skakel Kennedy raised their 11 children?

C. Hickory Hill

4. Which of the following notable people did not marry into the Kennedy family?

C. Frank Gifford. Gifford's daughter Victoria, however, married Robert and Ethel Kennedy's son Michael.

5. True or false: John F. Kennedy was the oldest of Joseph and Rose Kennedy's children.

False. He was the second oldest behind Joseph Jr.

6. Which member of the family founded the Special Olympics?

B. Eunice Kennedy Shriver

7. What year did Ted Kennedy become a U.S. senator from Massachusetts?

C. 1962

8. Which member of the family once served as U.S. ambassador to Ireland?

B. Jean Kennedy Smith

9. How old was matriarch Rose Kennedy when she died in 1995?

D. 104

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OH,PLEASE TEDDY I DON'T WANT TO DRIVE OVER THAT OLD BRIDGE.

BILL of NC 9:04AM April 28, 2010

truly a gifted politician a real American figure head everything he touches turn to gold from desegregation,world peace,humanitarian.immigration,health care,education and labor whatever, whenever,however,wherever it counts for ordinary Americans the "Lion of the Senate would roar for equal justice for all he really kept the lamp burning well into the toughest of fights to maintain or restore America's dream for all of us what a man we will never have anyone else like the champion of justice like the God given talented and gracious "Lion of th Senate"words cannot explain the loss our great nation has lost may his story be told truthfully so that the poor, the needy, the forgotten,and the destitute had a friend,brother and true and fierce Lion the roared in their favor at all times in their best interest living,breathing,thinking,loving,seeing and practicing what it meant by the in the pledge of allegiance "one nation under God indivisibly with justice and liberty for all" long live the Lion Senator Edward m.Kennedy and may God continue to bless these United States of America and our 44th President OBAMA.

richard saunders of NY 9:51PM August 26, 2009

I got them all correct. When it said I had one wrong I thought what? Kennedy did not win the Nobel Prize. He was awarded the Purple heart. Mark

Mark Bartolomei of CA 3:38AM May 17, 2009

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